THE NEW YORKER THE R.ACE TR.ACK Chance Shot Does It Again - Nimba Chal- lenges Fillies-Belmont Park Closes A LMOST every- .. '.0 body one met ..d 1 ". V in the crowd at Bel- IJI'" .- 7 mont Park last Sat- "W,IjIl urday remarked, "1 . suppose Chance " " ..' Shot will win the Belmont Stakes." A few, because he ,vas a 1-4 chance, looked for the win- ner in other quarters, to their later sorrow. Just before saddling time a young memher of the Turf and Field Club set said to me, "But this horse never has run a mile-and-a-half race-isn't it too far for him?" to which I sagely replied, "The others will find it just as far." We experts must take what kudos we can, and he was my choice from the first. C HANCE SHOT won America's classic for three-year-olds with such consummate ease that until he is tried further against older horses, which wil1 not be before autumn, he must be ranked with the best. Some say he is only a fair colt in an off year, but he has yet to be extended in a race this season. Sande rode him in the Bel- mont with the sang-froid of a boy in an exercise gallop and it was Chance Shot's tendency to do no more than he is asked that enabled Bois de Rose to be so close to him at the winning post, repeating history for William Ziegler ]r.'s stable. After P. A. B. Widener II, in the absence of his father, f 01- lowed the English custom of leading in the winner, Sande indulged in an "I told you so" to me. Chance Shot's next engagement will be the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct three weeks hence -and he'll win that as easily as he did the Belmont. T HE son of Fair Play and Quelle Chance is now the leading money- winning horse of the season, with $95,765 to his credit, but what's more inlportant to Mr. Widener, he joins that select list of colts which have won the Withers and the Belmont-our Guineas and Derby: Duke of Ma- genta, Forester, George Kinney, Pan- 6S EN the Happy Pair strolled down the flower-strewn path to their coach and four, neither of them thought very much at all about the painful uncertainty that preceded the choice of each one of their nuptial gifts. But the House of Sloane probed the question, and \vith lamps and mirrors and small rugs and furniture-and unusual decorative pieces-abolished the condition by eliminat- ing the cause. With closed eyes you can touch anything In our second floor Gallery-filled with so many good little gifts-and kno\v, without experiencing any irresolution, that your hand rests on one of the most pleasing of matrimonial presents. ., For those who like to browse for their favors \ve thro,v open everyone of Dur six floors through which they may roam un bothered and select at random. ..A.nd with no flaunting of banners or fanfare-but very sincerely-we ask that you notice ho\v fair and how just everyone of our prices is. & J. SLOANE 57 5 Fifth Aven ue at 47th St. w. NEW YORK C IT Y